Global aspects of coral reefs: health, hazards and history, case histories for colloquim forum June 10-11, 1993; Miami, Florida - Why conservation by legal fiat does not work
Year: 1993
Type: report
Abstract: Environmental laws are only hortatory words unless they are implemented; yet, non-implementation, non-enforcement, and violations of conservation laws are so common that they must be viewed 55 the norm rather than exception in the great majority Qf nations.Current biodivemity protection measures are inherently inadequate and environmental law by itself is too frail a mechanism to achieve the many fundamental changes in human behavior necessmy to ensure worldwide protection of endangered ecosystems and wildlife.In place of highly general, utopian conservation mandates now imposed by legal fiat, effeztive biodiversit y conservation programs must be tailored to the particular social, economic, political, and ecological characteristics of varied resource exploitation problems.These conservation programs must integrate particularized laws, scientific research on specific ecological hazds, environmental education campaigns, economic incentive or assistance measures designed to make conservation "profitable" for affected groups, and economic disincentives or realistic legal sanctions to curtail harmfhl activiti=.
DOI: 10.67297/0009b9
Author: H Latin
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W7220848675